We did one last year on a team of individual registrants. Those teams often become individual showcases with very little puck movement, positional confusion, etc., and the teams often get clubbed. Was fine to experience it once, but that was enough, mostly unimpressed with the organization. Actually think there are better outfits that do the same type of thing, but if you sign up as an individual player rather than on a whole team, it's a crapshoot.
Absolutely agree. Same experience. You'll get a young kid that they're paying peanuts to behind the bench. Zero coaching. Only instructions given to the boy is to make sure everyone is happy and to chase down the 3-4 parents that agreed to show up with a check. If you are just looking for ice and a weekend in beautiful buffalo....have at it.